Alright, I have a 30g iPod running on a win2k pc with an adaptec 4300 firewire card.

My issues? I've had this ipod for a few months now with NO problems. Recently I've noticed that during playback when it tried to buffer the songs it will skip to the next song when it's finished buffering. Annoying, but no big deal.

Then this last week, I'm getting the dreaded and much discussed WRITE DELAY ERROR when I'm trying to sync my ipod. I've tried restoring it, letting the battery die, uninstall, reinstall. I've read on here that it could be my firewire card and that I should use the adaptec 4300. Well, that's what I'm using.

The really strange thing about this error is when I get it, and the message says I lost all my data... Well, if I disconnect my ipod and reconnect it... no tracks show up. None on music match, none on the ipod. But if I go into the drive, I can see the mp3s in the folders. So, the music is there, but the ipod won't recognize them.

This doesn't seem like a firewire problem but an ipod problem.

Oh, and to rub salt in the wound, then I do a restore now, when it's done it says it can't mount the ipod.

So, it's trashed isn't it?